The Drawbars; Drawbar Presets - Clavia Nord Electro 2 User Manual

5. Panel reference: The Organ section
T D
HE RAWBARS
The drawbars of Nord Electro 2 are represented by buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary me-
chanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage: when you change presets or Programs, the correct draw-
bar settings are recalled immediately and shown by the LEDs. In other words, no need for the regular 'trial
and error' method. It's very easy to get the hang of changing the drawbar settings in a natural way with
the buttons.
The drawbars of Nord Electro 2
behave similar to their mechanical
counterparts, i.e. you "pull out"
the drawbars by pressing the
L
D
OWER RAWBAR
"push them back in" by pressing
the U D
PPER RAWBAR
The D buttons are spe-
RAWBAR
cial in the way that they auto-in-
crement/decrement the drawbar
value when held. I.e. if you hold a
D button the corre-
RAWBAR
sponding drawbar value will con-
tinue to increment or decrement
(within its range) until you release
the button. Each drawbar repre-
sents a partial. The numbers
printed below each D
LED C have a history.
HAIN
Originally, the B-3 was created to
mimic a church organ. The num-
bers on the B-3's drawbars re-
ferred to pipe sizes on a church organ. That's why it, for example, says 16', 5 1/3' etc. It corresponds to the
church organ's pipe length in foot. In the figure above you can see the pitch interval among the nine draw-
bars. Note that the second drawbar from the left actually lies a 5th above the basic partial. However, in most
situations it's perceived as sounding below the basic partial. When you play different notes on the keyboard,
the whole partial "package" is being transposed up or down with the fixed intervals.
D
RAWBAR PRESETS
Below the U -
P
D
PER RAWBAR
buttons are print-
ed 8 drawbar pre-
sets plus RND
(Random). Press
S + the corresponding U
HIFT
drawbar presets plus the 'Random drawbar settings' function. The Random function generates a new ran-
dom preset every time you activate it.
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buttons and
buttons.
RAWBAR
In the figure above we have chosen C3 as our reference note. The 8'
drawbar is considered the basic partial in the organ sound. The arrows
point at the respective note that each drawbar represents when C3 is
D
PPER RAWBAR
button to select one of these presets. There are 8 different
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